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...Apologists emphasize that man cannot be a descendant of any living ape, and go on to state that man is not really descended from an ape or monkey at all but from an earlier common ancestor. In fact that common ancestor would certainly be called an ape or monkey in popular speech by anyone who saw it. Since the terms 'ape' and 'monkey' are defined by popular usage, man's ancestors were apes or mon keys (or successively both) . . . Man is in the fullest sense a part of nature and not apart from...
...living creatures but mechanical monsters of his own creation, argued Mathematician Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. Dr. Wiener, inventor of the word "cybernetics" (science of control mechanisms), and No. i cybernetic philosopher, solemnly warned that computers and other educated machines may yet outgrow man's control. He rejected the common and cheerful opinion that machines can never have any degree of originality. "It is my thesis," said Wiener, "that machines can and do transcend some of the limitations of their designers...
...dancers and beatniks-professing every shade of belief and disbelief. There are existentialists and Catholics, Protestants, Jews and left-wing atheists; the 20-odd guests this week include an Oxford don, an engineer from El Salvador, a ballet dancer and an opera singer. The one thing they have in common is that they are intellectuals. And the European intellectual is the single object of the Schaeffers' mission in the mountains...
...Coming Alliance? If she wished to, Anita Young could very well tip the scales against Kirby. She owns 100,117 shares of Alleghany common and 170,020 shares of convertible preferred (market value: $9,978,000). Under Alleghany's balloting rules, in which the common elects five of the nine directors and the preferred the other four, she probably has enough preferred to vote in two directors...
...been trying to block the deal. The Justice Department quickly slapped an antitrust suit against El Paso. It charged that the merger would reduce competition in supplying gas to the rich West Coast market, even though, at the time, El Paso had simply acquired 99.8% of Pacific's common stock and was operating the companies separately. El Paso's President Paul Kayser countered by applying to the Federal Power Commission, which is more sympathetic to producers and pipelines and which shares jurisdiction with the trustbusters...